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    Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (15 August 1717 – 26 December 1806) was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer, author, and designer of one of...
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    de Besenval de Brunstatt as courtier around 1780, etching by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle Portrait of a Persian courtier Madame de Pompadour was a French...
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    de Saint-Georges, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and playwright Louis Carrogis Carmontelle. The couple also gave theatrical presentations, some of which were...
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    painters, such as Jean-Marc Nattier, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, the baron commissioned his last portrait from Henri-Pierre Danloux...
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    Sterne painted in watercolour by French artist Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, c. 1762...
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    to create a public park, and employed the writer and painter Louis Carrogis Carmontelle to design the gardens. The Duke was a close friend of the Prince...
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    after he migrated to England to escape the persecution of Protestants after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In 1706, Gabrielle-Suzanne married...
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    seen by the sketches we have of him, including a famous portrait by Carmontelle. He had a "loud voice". His speech was difficult to understand, just...
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    the 13th century. He had no heirs, and in 1232 ceded the property to king Louis IX of France (1214–70), who gave it to his mother Blanche of Castile (1188–1252)...
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    philosopher, a Pharaoh's tomb, and a hermit's cell. As the architect Louis Carrogis Carmontelle wrote about the garden he created at Monceau, "Let us vary the...
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    However, this painting is only a copy of the original gouache by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle from 1770. The painting shows six "gentlemen"(French: Gentilshommes)...
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    Orléans, the nephew and son-in-law of Louis XIV of France. She was comtesse de Ségur by marriage, and a courtier of Louis XV, her cousin. Born c. 1700–1702...
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    the French Army and was one of the foremost diplomats in the service of Louis XV. He is chiefly remembered in connection with the Secret du Roi. As second...
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  • antiquary, politician and literary patron (born 1719) December 26 – Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, French dramatist (born 1717) Clifford, Brendan (1993). "Introduction"...
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    1797) August 13 – Louis François, Prince of Conti, French nobleman, military leader (d. 1776) August 15 Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, French dramatist (d...
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    employed the writer and painter Louis Carrogis Carmontelle to design the gardens. In 1778, when the garden opened, Carmontelle was accused of imitating the...
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    Schoenhofen Mausoleum. Perhaps more closely related are the pyramid by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle at Parc Monceau in Paris and a cenotaph by Antonio Canova that...
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  • Pluquet (1716–1790) Jean-François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803) Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (1717–1806 Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) Michel-Jean Sedaine...
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  • (1881‍–‍1976) Bradley Cantrell (b. 1975) Michele Canzio (1788‍–‍1868) Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (1717‍–‍1806) Jot D. Carpenter (1938‍–‍2000) Benito Javier Carrasco [es]...
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    Madame la Marquise de Gléon, née Savalette, circa 1760, drawing by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle. Collection of the Musée Condé, Chantilly Portrait of a Lady (Madame...
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  • 1797) August 13 – Louis François, Prince of Conti, French nobleman, military leader (d. 1776) August 15 Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, French dramatist (d...
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  • August – Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, dramatist (died 1806) 5 October – Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France...
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    Paris. Known as the Abbé de Chauvelin, he was the youngest son of Germain Louis Chauvelin and thus a brother of marquis François Claude Chauvelin. He ardently...
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    Louis Guy Henri, Marquis de Valori, (11 November 1692 in Menen – October 1774) was a French diplomat and aristocrat, who served as a general under Louis...
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    Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-252-09386-9. Migel, Parmenia. The Ballerinas: From the Court of Louis XIV to Pavlova. New York: Macmillan, 1972. v t e v t e...
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    Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, Madame de Montullé and her children, musée Condé, Chantilly...
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    Bernard-Joseph Saurin. Portrait by Louis Carrogis dit Carmontelle, 1761. Chantilly, Musée Condé....
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